Overview
of selb youth service
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SELB Mission Statement
"To ensure that high quality education, youth and library services exist throughout the area to:
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provide opportunities for personal development, |
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encourage individuals to acquire core skills, and nurture moral values embedding responsibility, respect and appreciation |
thereby enriching life in the community and contributing to Northern Ireland's economic development.
The Board will provide the necessary support services, advice and guidance in accordance with our statutory role, to our direct and indirect customers and partners."
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SELB Corporate Values
The SELB through the Strategic Plan recognises the importance of declaring corporate values. We recognise these values as aspirations
and seek to demonstrate in our work and service provision that increasingly they are a reality.
The corporate values we believe in are:
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valuing our customers and striving to meet their needs, |
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valuing our colleagues, their commitment and contribution, |
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communicating openly and effectively, building trust and co-operation, |
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exercising integrity, objectivity, accountability, impartiality and promoting equality of opportunity for all, |
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focusing on quality outputs and results and achieving value for money, and having a management style and philosophy that is professional, flexible and supportive, delegates responsibility and accountability for decision
making to appropriate levels and encourages the involvement of all of our staff in the development of a corporate identity. |
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SELB Youth Service Vision Statement
The Education and Library Board Youth Service will be a responsive educational service focusing on the personal development of young people. It will be a service delivered where appropriately in partnership with others both inside and outside the field of education. It will provide or secure equal opportunities for all young people relative to their needs and embrace the central theme and Core Principle of the DENI 1997 document - Youth Worker Model for Effective Practice. |
Youth Work - A Model for Effective Practice
In 1997 DENI produced this document which contains a revised curriculum model with the core theme of Personal and Social Development and core principles which should underpin and permeate all youth work namely:
- Commitment to preparing young people for participation,
- The promotion of acceptance and understanding of others and,
- The development of appropriate values and beliefs
These core principles underpin the personal and social development of young people and should be reflected in all youth work.
Curriculum Model
The diagram provides a framework within which the following list provide some programme area:
- 1. Health Education Information Technology
- 2. Information, guidance and counselling
- 3. Testing values and beliefs
- 4. Creative education
- 5. Outdoor education
- 6. Sport and recreation
- 7. Widening horizons
- 8. Community involvement
- 9. Community relations
- 10. Political awareness and active citizenship
- 11. Development education
- 12. Environment awareness
A full version of the document can be obtained in Pdf format through the following link to DENI Youth Serivce.
Core Services of Board
- 1. distributing Funds and other resources to registered groups engaged in youth work;
- 2. providing Controlled Youth Clubs;
- 3. providing Outdoor Education Centres;
- 4. providing training, advisory and support services for controlled units, voluntary groups, and individuals involved in Youth Service activities;
- 5. monitoring and evaluating the quality of Youth Service provision;
- 6. promoting innovative practice in youth work and seeking resources to support it;
- 7. promoting the image of the Youth Service by raising public awareness and by planned future activity;
- 8. enabling Youth Units to meet the objectives of the Department's 1987 Policy Document;
- 9. providing advocacy on Youth Affairs;
- 10. identifying current needs of young people;
- 11. initiating and continuing inter-agency contacts on matters relating to young people; and
- 12. integrating Youth Service activities with the formal education service in an equal partnership.
Board's Structure
The SELB has established a Joint Youth Service Advisory Committee as a sub committee of the Education Committee.
The function of the Committee is to make recommendations in youth service policy and the Education Committee and to implement the agreed policy.
Policy is implemented through a team of workers under the directional of the Head of Youth Service.
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